Hi David. Sorry for the late response. #sorrynotsorry Turing is used primarily as a learning tool, and was designed as such. Since it was made for ease-of-use rather than speed or versatility, the only reason you might use Turing is for a simple program, or if you're just getting started with programming.

Mostly highschool students

To my knowledge, no.

Yes, turing runs on windows. It also runs on linux and mac.

If you can get linux on it ;)

Not that I know of, but I'm not sure.

You'll have to buy a copy from holtsoft. If you are a student, and your school/board has purchased a license, you can get a copy for free.

Under windows, installation is very simple. I don't use it that often and I haven't used it in a while, so I'm not sure if there are any important notes for installing it on other systems.

why is not passing parameters bad programming style? If it works without passing parameters, why not use global variables?

The reasons may vary depending on the program. One of the most common reasons is that your procedures/functions may ultimately be included in a library, where people using your programs will want to just pass the parameters straight to it rather than figuring out all the variable needed. -Frazzydee|✍ 04:23, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

increasing and decreasing a counter by an increasing and decreasing amount??[edit]

So i need to increase a value by zero, then one, then -1, 2, -2, 3, -3... and i have no idea on how to do it. i've been trying to use some variation on

I am in grade 10, and we were just asked to make a simulation program. With variables such as wind, gravity, etc. Anyways, I've been sick for the past week or so and haven't got anything done because I dont have turing at my home. Can anyone send me a program which will simulate a golf shot? It has to have variables such as wind gravity slice and hook of the shot, and the user can enter thigns such as if he /she is a amteur or pro golfer, therefore affecting how close their shot will be to the hole. Can anyone PLEASE send me a prgram that will do this. I am in HUGE need. THANKS! my email is jamias_666@hotmail.com if u want to send me one. thank you!

I advise you not to publish email addresses if you don't want to get spam.

Hi i was wondering if you could tell me why this code does not work in turing. it crashes[edit]

procedure info (var base, height, L1, L2, L3 : int)

put "Please enter the base of the triangle"
get base
put "Please enter the height of the triangle"
get height
put "Please enter the 1st length of the triangle"
get L1
put "Please enter the 2nd length of the triange"
get L2
put "Please enter the 3rd length of the triangle"
get L3

Is it possible to make a RPG in turing? I can make a very basic battle system with hp and such. However I want to make it so you can level up and use items and all that. With a weapon making system of some kind.

Turing is an extrmely limited programming tool/language, making an RPG with level ups and wepons would be extremely difficult if not impossible. This is because Turing is used mainly as a learning tool for beginner programmers to show them the basic elements of programming, a better programmming language to use would be Java maybe, or C++, I really do not recommendd the use of Turing to create a complex game such as the one you describe

i have made a simple(it has levels atk ect.)text based rpg but it is hard to make graphics in my game so instead i wnt for a retro look if you like doing these kind of things you should go to this website.

i need help writing a program for a video connect four game. i just had pneumonia and have missed 2 weeks or so of school. this project is due very soon and i'm not very good at turing. if somebody could please, please, please help me, that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much.

Of course you can make an RPG in Turing. Now, it won't be the graphical equal to Final Fantasy X, but you can make something that looks like a game from the Nintendo/Super Nintendo era without much trouble at all.

:= sets the value of a variable. You should be using = for comparison (eg. comparing the value of label to "a"). Try that, and come back if it still doesn't work...sorry, but I don't have time to test it myself right now :( -Frazzydee|✍ 22:58, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

I've got 95% of the code complete. I'm stumped at the actual transfer of information though! I can open a connection, and connect, but I have no way of passing information between the server and the client! Can someone help?

You should be able to use get and put, IIRC. Is there any reason why "get : ns, stringvar" won't work? (where ns is your netstream and stringvar is a string variable). If you're still having trouble, post your code somewhere and I'll take a look at it. -Frazzydee|✍ 23:00, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

umm yee i jus wanted to know like i understand the how the loops work but i dont understand how you get the program to loop so that it starts over again if the user prompts it to like for example.. in the case such as you hav the program run then you get to the end and you loop it so it says exit program if word = no( the user says no i dont want to play again) but how do you get it to start over if the user says yes they do want to start over again ??

I'm working on a turing project for school (grade 10 FTW), and I have to create a welcome screen to use in all of my programs. The problem is, I made a really nice one (atleast nice for what we've learned so far) but the code it really long. I don't want to have to copy that into the top of my program everytime. Is there a line of code that I can put into the top of each program to tell it to run the welcome screen first, then continue on to the rest of the program?

You can use include.

For example, if your welcome screen is in a file called welcome.t, you would write

include "welcome.t"

at the beginning of each of your assignments.

Make sure welcome.t is in the same directory as your assignment, though.

I am trying to make a Sudoku game, which has turned out to be a long script. Is there a way I could group variables together to make thing simpler. eg loop if a1 = {anyone of the Variable groups} then a1 := a1+1

Can anyone help me, I need to make a scene where a cowboy jumps off a cliff onto his horse, and rides away. I can make the scene, but I cant seem to get the cowboy to jump down to the horse, and ride away. They are stick figures by the way, on a brown box.

I have a bunch of procedures and at the beginning of each i wanna put a music with a fork. i got it to work but it won't work inside the procedure because u cant' have a process in a procedure. what do i do? please help me!!

How do use the parallelget function. according to my understanding its more complicated than parallelget(64) . please answer in full detail as i am in g.12. what isBold text MOD and DIV. thanks . ALOT. parallelget is a function with no parameters:

yeah, i need to make a program where i ask the user for two words, and then i put it in alphabetical order i have managed to do this by just making my variables word1, and word2, then i just put :

if word1 > word2 then
put word2,"":2,word1
else
put word1,"":2, word2
end if

in my program i did include the get statements and the variables... but i just put in the general idea i had for putting things alphabetically. The problem is, both words have to be either upper case, or lower case, i cant word1 as upper, and word2 as lower because lower case words are larger than upper even if the upper starts with "Z" and the lower starts with "a", my program will still display after the words are inputted, Z is before a. how do i make it so it says a before Z?

can anyone tell me how to make my program calculate tax? I already tried to multiply it by a number on the line itself, but my instructor does not allow it, saying it needs to be done as a variable, where after the price is inputed, you click and it calculates the tax.

Here is the program so far

var Name:string var Price:int var Total:int

put "What is the item you want to buy?" get Name:* put "How much does it cost?" get Price put "With tax, the total bill is.."

well it depends how much the tax is in your area, since i don't what it is in your area, I will prompt the user to input it just like they input the price. Below is the new program:

var Name:string
var Price:int
var Total:int
var Tax : int
put "What is the item you want to buy?"
get Name:*
put "How much does it cost?"
get Price
put "How much is the tax."
get Tax
put "With tax, the total bill is.."
Total := (Price * Tax) + Price
put Total

Please help! What are variable and value parameters? please include an example.

Thanks, utterly confused

I am a grade 10 student who attends a "Computer Engineering" class. We have been doing Turing for a while now and we have been assigned a final project worth 30 percent of our marks. The assignment I was given is this:

You have been hired by the grade 10 Computer Science teacher to help students learn new computer terms by creating a Hangman game with the appropriate graphics. As a student enters a letter they think is in the word either a green LED light will light indicating the letter is correct or a red LED will light indicating the letter is wrong.

Peripheral: You must design and build a peripheral which will display 2 LEDs associated with attractively made designs for being correct (green) or wrong (red)

Interface: You must properly assemble a parallel port connector with 2 LEDs and insert them into the peripheral.

Now, I have created my hangman game on Turing with all of the game requirements, except for the peripheral and interface. Our teacher has not covered any of that information; therefore I don’t know how to do it.

Please, if you can explain to me or give me steps to what I should do (even a link to where I can get answers) will be very useful and very well appreciated. Thank you!

hello i am in grade 10. I tried my best to do this but i cant we are doing some practice on chapter 6 of turing and we have to creat a quiz where it ask's for like multiple choice questions,true and false and matching.This quiz consist of 10 questions. After each question the computer must chech if the answer is correct or incorrect, and output the result as well as the number of marks earned for that question. At the end of the test, the computer must print out the final mark for the test in 3 ways: example: 1.A fraction 2.A percentage 3. A letter grade If the test was a 50 percent or lower, the computer must ask if the student would like to re-write the test. If she/he wants to, the computer must loop back to the 1st question and begin again with a blank mark. The student can rewrite a total of 2 times Here are the 10 questions i want to put in order to make the turing program work Multiple choice question

1:What is another name for CPU Here are the options of the answer 1:Microprocessor put " Yes your right" 2:decode put "No try again" 3:execute put"No you're wrong" 4:Microchip put "Nope this is wrong sorry" So these questions i want to put into turing form

One question for true and false 1:Turing is a great programming language if the statement is true then put its right if the statement is false but its wrong

and other questions like this Please i really need help so please tell me ASAP

'how do we do fill in the blank on turing like i want to draw a small line for blank and then put the statement. like _________ is my name so how do i draw the line please helppp ASAPPPPP...'

i need help withh this question for turing 4.1.1 Federal income tax is to be levied in stages on taxable income.On the first $27,500 you pay 17%, on the next $27,500 you pay 24%, an on the rest 29%. Write a program to read in a taxable income and compute the federal tax payable to the nearest cent. (use the current tax for the province of Ontario.)

I have a really annoying problem in my coding to create a hangman game in Turing. The problem is at the bloded and italicised part. Turing says one of the variables has no value, and I have no idea why I need help ASAP, becasue this school project is due Tuesday

How do you find the highest and lowest number from a list of numbers given in Turing (programming)?[edit]

Here is the question: Prompt the user to input test marks. Find the average and highest and lowest marks.

The average was easy to find but I have on idea how to get the highest and lowest marks. Our (Gr. 10) Turing class so far has covered loops, for loops, if statements, variable types: string, real, int, and other basic things.